[thelist] alt tags on all images (was Site Check)

[noah]

At 01:29 PM 07/11/2001, aardvark wrote:

>download Lynx, view that site, read it aloud...
>
>you could also get a browser for the disabled, but Lynx is a good
>one to have for a myriad of reasons...
>
>i'd much rather see a page of:
>
>"Welcome to Foobar"
>
>than:
>
>[IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE]"Welcome to
>Foobar"[IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE
>][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE][IMAGE]
>
>and if that can be achieved by using (valid and correct) empty alt
>attributes in all my image tags, then you can be darn sure i'm
>going to include them...

I see . . . I guess I'll shift my frustration away from the W3C and towards 
the browser makers - it just seems to me that if a browser can not display 
an image, and there's no alt text, it should ignore the image altogether, 
and display nothing.

I can't think of a single circumstance in which a browser telling you 
[IMAGE] is of any use whatsoever, and it seems a little silly to me that we 
have to include extra code in every image tag to avoid this.

Cheers,
Noah.